The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-08-29

with an English officer As l afterward
learned, to my sorrow, this girl was madly
| in love with him, and when he came here
she followed He had intended to settle III
San Francisco, but she annoyed him to such
an extent that he came to St Louis and
| from there to a small village called Green's
Corners near Dubuque.
81 met him first i'll st. Louis, and we
were married after years courtshlp. He
told me all of his former life, and how he
had been in love in Australia before he saw
me. We removed to Iowa, and for nearly
year we heard nothing of the woman who
had followed him here Fourteen months
after our marriage our baby-this baby"
and the mother bent lovingly over the life
less clay beside her, twas born. don't
think there were two happier people i'll the
world than we were for year afterward.
On the day the baby was Is months old my
husband came home from Dubuque, and
told me that he had been traced by the girl
he had Tilted, and that she had created
terrible scene when she learned of his mar
riage A few days later my husband went
to Dubuque again, but did not tell me any
thing further when he came home.
ROBBED OF HUSBAND AND CHILD.
"Within a week from that time his visits
were made almost daily. just twenty-one
days after my husband had told me of his
L aNOhC OiiO mn AiAiA6
to find myself deserted; not only deserted,
but robbed of my child. Caleb left a note
behind saying that while he still loved and
respected me, he loved the other woman
better. The cruelest part of his letter, how
ever, was the concluding three lines, in
which he said that he loved our baby boy
better than life itself, and he had determined
10 take him along and care for him as ten
DERBY as he knew how.
ssT don't hat what hanrana6 for
several days after thar, but when [ came to
myself | sold out every stick and started
East to get my baby. | traced Caleb to
Chicago, and found he had been employed
there as waiter Then private detective
found him in Pittsburg, but he got away
from me before / reached there. For three
months | remained in that city and then
heard he was in Philadelphia, and
when | reached that city ! again
lost trace of him. l spent more than
two months in vain search. [ had 81, 100
in cash when | reached Chicago, but at the
end of six months | had expended nearly
every penny of it, | was Just about ready
to destroy myself when got word through
one of the private agencies had employed
that Caleb was in Atlantic City, waiter
in large hotel, under an assumed name. l
fonnd this to be true, and also that he was
living with the woman he had Tilted as his
wife and that she was caring for my baby
boy.
81 went down there on Thursday last,
found my husband and my dear little child.
1t was all wasted to skin and bone, but |
begged Caleb to give it to me, and | would
ask nothing more. He consented, but made
no explanation or offer TO come back to me.
did not see his-his companion. l got on
the cars, thanking God that I at least had
my child, and now He has taken it from
me;n
This was the story told while the train
rumbled along, and the travellers returning
from the seashore made merry while one
woman's heart was breaking. She refused
all proffers of assistance, and when the
ferry boat landed at Market street wharf
said she intended to take the first train for
her home in the West.